Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-01-13
TALK OF A NEW q r.


your issue OF january otn u fepoFt
of the Board of Elders by p. w.
Harding. Bro. Harding has written
a very nice letter and given some
very good advice, but l desire, by
your permission, to notice n sem
tence. He says Bro. Highee has told
us on several former occasions that
there are some 40 odd persons living
in town who are, or have been, MEN,
bers, but have not as yet taken men,
bership with the congregation, though
he has urged them to unite with us.
Perhaps this sentence is true rs to
the 40 persons living in town that
have been members. But, Bro. H.,
the urging them to unite needs a
little explanation. l live in this
town, hold a good letter, and would
gladly unite with you if I could, but
last fall 1 went forward and offered
myself On an acknowledgment OF all
that l could possibly confess to. Did
brother Higbee urge me to unite?
No. He told me on the front seat,
as L sit there asking for a place as an
humble disciple to worship God, he
said: "If you knew it when you
came here you are treading on the
cocketrice den.' And, Bro. Harding,
l nov ask you to please tell me what
to do. I would love to be in fellow
ship with my brethren. Last Lords
day l sat at home /; l could not 60 to
hear the pastor preach that called my
brethren a den of cocketrices. was
finally induced to withdraw my appli-
cation for membership, because your
unscriptural pastor objected to the
church receiving me. l now stand
with the forty who ought to be in the
church, and l ask, on behalf of my
self and the forty, what shall We do?
We want to live Christians your
Elders have put a man in the pulpit
that objected to receiving one of us,
a thing that has not got a parallel in
this restoration. With no charge
against me, a good letter, and that
backed by as humble a confession as
l could make, was driven away from
the Christian church of Mexico by
your pastor and Board of officers
Please tell me and my forty compan
ions (that don't feel like running the
gauntlet since they saw my fate) wha
to do? Your pastor stands in ouI
way. You move the stumbling stone
(pastor) and we will all come in
Some few are poor and feel mortified
to have the basket perched under thei
nose twice a day to pay an unscript
ural, functlonary $1,000 a year tt
boss Ladies' Aid Societies, that is al
addition to Gods word to contro
Harvesters and Mission work, no
done on the Lords plans. See tina
none of you put a stumbling block a
an occasion to fall in his Bros way
Romans, 14:13: You board of off
GERS remove your stumbling blocl
(pastor) and then reach out the hant
of friendship and see if we dom
come too soon" We meet that low
you talked of and all forty want to b
in the congregation. Jesus SAID
Blessed are the poor" Now / wan
to say to the poor of Mexico, three
fourths of MY time is engaged, tn
other one-fourth I will devote at tn
Little Church Around the Corner
for the benefit of the poor of Mexico
AS one of the forty I will establish
Church of Christ in Mexico; that i
a man presents himself for member
ship we will say: go, sin no more
We will not refer his case to a set O
unscriptural bosses to vote on. A
the "Little Church Around the Cor
ner'' all will be welcome, rich ant
poor. No hat will be passed to dun
you. No cleaners will call to gleal
your small change. No religion.
mockery shall interrupt you. Conn
without money and without price. l
you want to make a gift do so, bu'
for the Lords sake don't publish it
Don't let the right hand know wha.
the left hand doeth. 1t is ~farcical t.
blow about what you do.
Now, l submit the above in love
forty of US are fairly crowded out
the word of God is ignored we ar,
ignored; our feelings are not respect
ed We can't unite with the sects
our own brethren ignore us. Breth
rem, we must worship God; if w,
can't be allowed to break the loaf il
what used to he our home, we mus
meet and worship the Lord. Th,
day of %fetribution is coming. Ths
Lord is coming-we must be ready
Yours in love, d. L. KINeAID.
To Stop the Surplus.